When I was 9 days old my mom found me blue in my bassinet next to her bed. I wasn't breathing and soon after she found me I fell unconcious. My dad put me in his lap and drove to the hospital (don't ask me why they didn't call 911. I don't know.). I'm told that he realized that if he pressed down on my tongue I could breathe, so he held my tongue down as he drove. From the local ER I was rushed to Atlanta and stayed for a while. They could find absolutely nothing wrong with me. They told my parents that if my mom hadn't of found me when she did, I would have died. They called is a case of Missed SIDS. That if I had of died, I would have been classified as a SIDS case.
I was finally sent home with a heart and breathing monitor. There are a ton of baby pictures of me with wires hooked up to me.

I honestly think the lack of oxygen damaged me a little. I have always been terrified of holding my breath for any reason and can't for longer than like 3 seconds before I panic. I also have Tourette's Syndrome (with no family history), ADD, OCD, and a severe anxiety disorder.

All my life, I have never met or heard of anyone who went through that. I'm curious if any of you have gone through something like this or know someone like this. I know a lot of people don't believe me and say no one can survive it.

http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/sudden_infant_death_syndrome_(sids).html

Apparent life-threatening episodes (ALTE)


A number of babies have these episodes, which in the past have sometimes been called ‘near miss SIDS’. An ALTE is where the baby is found limp, sometimes blue, sometimes unconscious or unresponsive, and not breathing. Different amounts of stimulation are needed to revive babies in this condition, ranging from noise or gentle movement of a limb to CPR. This is terrifying for parents, and these babies are usually then admitted to hospital for close monitoring and investigation.
The causes of these episodes are varied and include:

• convulsions (fits)
• choking, sometimes caused by food coming up from the stomach and going down the wrong way (gastro-oesophageal reflux)
• the heart losing its rhythm (cardiac arrhythmias)
• the baby ‘forgetting’ to breathe (apnoeic episodes) – this is usually caused by an immature central nervous system, but might also be caused by certain viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus.

There is often no cause found for an ALTE.
The relationship between ALTEs and later SIDS isn’t clear, although up to 13% of infants who die from SIDS have had an ALTE. If a cause for the ALTE is found, it’s treated. If no cause is found, parents are assured it’s unlikely to happen again.
Sometimes an apnoea alarm is used to monitor the baby’s breathing. Apnoea alarms aren’t totally reliable and can cause great anxiety in parents, who often say they lie awake at night waiting for the alarm to go off. There’s no evidence to show that an apnoea alarm reduces the incidence of SIDS.

I actually went through something like that at 6 mionths old. I was blue and not breathing and my eyes were rolled back. You can survive it. But I guess it is rare.

Quoting Brandi Milam:" I actually went through something like that at 6 mionths old. I was blue and not breathing and my eyes were rolled back. You can survive it. But I guess it is rare."

I guess it is too. Do you have any lasting effects from it?

I have asthma and severe adhd and am slightly afraid of people

I was a "missed SIDS" baby. Made me terrified for my son, but I think it was because I'm allergic to smoke and my mom smokes in the house (always has). I had severe "asthma" til I moved out at 18 and haven't used an inhaler since at all. Not even once.

I've never heard of missed sids (though I do believe sids is just a catch-all diagnoses) but your parents probably saved you by taking you themselves, it would have taken longer to wait for an ambulance.

Quoting P Pickle Pants:" I was a "missed SIDS" baby. Made me terrified for my son, but I think it was because I'm allergic to ... [snip!] ... in the house (always has). I had severe "asthma" til I moved out at 18 and haven't used an inhaler since at all. Not even once."

Oh wow. I'm sorry you had to deal with the smoke.  

I was terrified for Johanna when she was born. There were many nights where I sat on a barstool watching her sleep, just in case.  

Quoting eKnuckles:" I've never heard of missed sids (though I do believe sids is just a catch-all diagnoses) but your parents ... [snip!] ... diagnoses) but your parents probably saved you by taking you themselves, it would have taken longer to wait for an ambulance."

You're probably right about the ambulance. I didn't think of it like that.

There was a fine wgen my son was 5 months and I picked him up and he was floppy. To this day idk if I was just in a crazy moment and paranoid or if something really was wrong. I was paranoid if suds do I constantly watched him like a hawk the first 9 months or so.. I grabbed him up when I didn't see his chest move for what I felt was too long and I ran him into the room where dh was, moving him the whole way, frantic. Ds began crying as I burst in the door and dh said I was crazy. It must have looked crazy. So idk if that was real or just be having a crazy moment after super lack of sleep from always checking his chest and vitals... I was a wreck during his infancy..